Page 9: Historical Events In May - 01

1934  On this day in history alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35   

1935  Boulder Dam completed on May - 01.   

1935  Canada's first silver dollar is circulated on this day in history.   

1935  On this day in history royal Canadian Mint circulates Canada's first silver dollar, to commemorate the silver jubilee of the reign of George V   

1936  On May - 01 emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades   

1936  FBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis on May - 01.   

1937  On May - 01 fDR signs act of neutrality   

1937  Snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1939  On May - 01 batman Comics hit the street   

1939  On this day in history pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling)   

1940  On this day in history 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship   

1940  On this day in history the 1940 Olympics are cancelled   

1941  On this day in history "Citizen Kane", directed by &starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York   

1941  On May - 01 allied evacuation from Greece completed   

1941  On May - 01 general Mills introduces Cheerios   

1941  On this day in history german assault on Tobruk   

1941  On May - 01 orson Welles stars in Citizen Kane, premiering today in New York, NY   

1941  On May - 01 john R Locksmith de Brown, vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71   

1942  Japanese forces take Mandalay, Burma, in World War II while British retreat along Chindwin Valley to India on this day in history.   

1942  On this day in history radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"   

1942  On May - 01 townsville put on invasion alert   

1943  Final assault on Tunis by Allied troops begins on this day in history.   

1943  Food rationing begins in US on May - 01.   

1943  German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta on May - 01.   

1943  On May - 01 german Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes   

1943  Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Smith's Friends (b.1871) on May - 01.   

1944  On this day in history messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, first jet bomber, makes first flight   

1944  On May - 01 pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the Dark)   

1944  On this day in history surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails   

1945  900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren commit suicide on this day in history.   

1945  Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government on this day in history.   

1945  Australia's 26th Brigade troops invade Tarakan on Borneo's east coast on May - 01.   

1945  Australian &Dutch troops lands on Tarakan on this day in history.   

1945  General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms on this day in history.   

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1218  On this day in history birth of john I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257)   

1218  On May - 01 birth of rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291)   

1238  Magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80) was born on this day in history.   

1285  Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326) was born on May - 01.   

1493  On this day in history birth of phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10)   

1545  On May - 01 birth of franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist   

1567  On this day in history birth of michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter   

1577  Francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer was born on May - 01.   

0408  Death of Arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338) on this day in history.   

1118  On May - 01 death of edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080)   

1171  Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies on May - 01.   

1240  On May - 01 death of jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals   

1277  On this day in history stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies   

1308  Death of Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered on May - 01.   

1447  On this day in history louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies   

1456  Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies on this day in history.